​Malaika Office Hours

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​Open sessions for early-stage founders seeking clear thinking, honest feedback, and practical next steps on real problems (strategy, fundraising, hiring, product, or market). This is not a pitch or sales call. Expect direct questions, real-world context, and actionable guidance based on operator experience and investor expectations. The simple goal: help you leave sharper, more confident, and unstuck.

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Saurabh Yergattikar

​He is an Engineering Leader at eBay Inc. with 14+ years of backend and platform experience, known for leading and scaling production systems that process billions of transactions in high-availability environments. He specializes in building reliable, secure, and observable services-spanning architecture, performance, resiliency, data modeling, and operational excellence-particularly in transaction-heavy domains such as billing, payments, and large-scale event processing.

​He is also an open-source creator, including Tour-de-CodeAI (to accelerate codebase onboarding and developer productivity) and an MCP Security Gateway focused on improving safety and governance for agentic/LLM-powered workflows. 

​Through his office hours for startup founders, Saurabh helps teams move from “it works” to “it scales” with pragmatic guidance on technical evolution: system design reviews, architecture modernization, scalability planning, reliability and incident-readiness, security guardrails, and cost-aware growth.

​Founders typically engage him for: Early architecture validation, scaling playbooks, API and data contracts, performance tuning, and establishing engineering standards that support fast iteration without compromising stability.